Skelos and Paterson throw down

After Paterson said that the leaders didn’t understand how bad things were going to get, he then asked people to get specific and put it out there for the leaders to respond.

Smith and Tedisco respond, talking about their readiness to cut and address the issues.

Skelos gets defensive about Paterson’s comments: He blames the Spitzer/ Paterson administration and the Paterson administration for executive budgets that were larger than the rate of inflation in 2007-08, and 2008-09. He then takes issue with Paterson’s comments…